Sverdrup Island is named after Norwegian polar explorer and ship Captain Otto Sverdrup who sighted it on 18 August 1893 during the Fram Expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen.

[1] It belongs to the Taymyr Autonomous Okrug of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation.

[2] The island is located 120 km north of Dikson on the Siberian coast.

The nearest land mass is the Arkticheskiy Institut Islands, about 90 km to the northeast.

There are a few mammals, such as the lemming and arctic fox; among the birds the dunlin and some species of Charadriiformes deserve mention.